Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — ENGLAND TO RETALIATE. [ARTICLE]

ENGLAND TO RETALIATE.

Will Take Action Against Jurance to Protect Sugar Growers. The British cabinet has decided to inaugurate a policy of trade retaliation against France if the latter continues to cripple the British sugar growing colonies by her bounty system. This will be the first time England approached anything like a protective measure. Germany, Austria and Holland have consented to reduce their bounties a certain amount yearly till the system is wiped out. France alone has held out against it. England’s colonial sugar growers have been almost ruined by competition with the bounty-fed sugar of Europe.